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In My Opinion: The Top Ten Coen Bros. Films

30 September 2009 1:49 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Ethan and Joel Coen circa 1990 while promoting Miller's Crossing Top Ten Coen Bros. Films With the upcoming release of A Serious Man, the brand new film from the Coen brothers, I decided to put together my personal top ten list of their films. A task that proved much harder than I would have originally imagined. I agonized over this list. Why? Because love isn't a strong enough word for how I feel about the Coen films. No, something more akin to reverence mixed with a healthy bit of obsessive adoration would be much closer to my relationship with their work. They are the kind are filmmakers who make us think, as we sit in the theater, they are unspooling the yarn just for us. Sure, the Coens weave tales of great violence and isolation, but somewhere in there a quiet grace is achieved too. Places 11, 12 and 13 Photo: Universal Pictures / Touchstone »

- Laremy Legel

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Clip for arthouse adaptation of Homer's Odyssey Penelope (Penelopa)

8 September 2009 10:52 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

[Update: New trailer added with English subs!]

Back in July of 2008, we showed the first teaser for this incredible looking Croatian film which is set in a "mythical time and space, with contemporary influences and attitudes". We also talked about the couture being heavily influenced by Japanese fashion.. and I still don't know where it is.

Penelope, the mythical character from Homer's The Odyssey, is waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from the Trojan War. She waits for twenty years. Penelope wanders alone through her enormous castle, often in a dreamlike state, each room a different memory. In these rooms she has visions of her husband, and memories of happier times together. In heavy contrast twenty revolting suitors sit at the dining table as a constant reminder of the present, forever eating, drinking, snoring and swearing. They are growing restless of waiting for Penelope to make a decision as to which of them she shall marry. »

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‘Revenge Of The Fallen’ Franchises: Five Sequels That Don’t Suck

25 June 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

by John Constantine

I hear the same complaint every summer: why are there so many sequels!? Don’t these movie-maker people have any original ideas? How about some new movies already? Look, everyone. Sequels are awesome. We’ve known this about popular fiction since popular fiction was invented. Long before Optimus Prime rolled out in “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” creators and audiences have been itching to return to their favorite characters and stories.

Just look at Cervantes. The guy created the modern novel. His “Don Quixote” was the 17th century equivalent to the summer blockbuster. Know what the guy did ten years after writing it? He wrote part two! Continuing adventures are coded into the very DNA of modern entertainment. The only problem is that they rarely live up to their predecessors. Here are the five movie sequels that not only met expectations, but exceeded them.

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- MTV Movies Team

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Warner Bros Sails With 'Odysseus'

27 April 2009 4:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Those of us who suffered through Warner Bros' Troy were always kind of hoping they'd reward us by making the obvious sequel of The Odyssey. Now they are. Variety reports that the studio has nabbed "Odysseus," a spec script by Ann Peacock, and has assigned Jonathan Liebesman to direct.

Here I should stress that it's not officially a sequel to Troy but it might as well be, since it will follow that "real world" vision they set up with their earlier Homer rewrite. The movie won't be the tale of Odysseus' really lousy trip home from the Trojan War, but what happens when he finally gets back to his kingdom of Ithaca which he "finds under the brutal occupation of an invading force." Now this is true to the poem in that Odysseus finds all those wannabe husbands eating him out of house and home, and Penelope trying her best to fend them off. »

- Elisabeth Rappe

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Another Version of Homer’s Odysseus Headed to Big Screen

27 April 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »

Last year we heard that George Miller (”Mad Max”) and Brad Pitt were teaming up for a sci-fi retelling of Homer’s “The Odyssey” (no word on where that project is at, or if it’ll even happen now) for Warner Bros., who is apparently so infatuated with the tale that they’re already prepping yet another version, this one more Earth-bound. Warner Bros. has won the bidding war for a spec script called “Odysseus” by Ann Peacock, and has attached Jonathan Liebesman (”The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning”) to direct. Unlike the original tale by Homer called “The Odyssey”, which spent most of its time on the trials and tribulations of Odysseus and his crew as they make his way back home from the Trojan War, THR says the script by Peacock will be a brutal revenge tale set primarily on Odysseus’ island of Ithaca, which is currently under »

- Nix

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Odysseus to Get Bloody Revenge in New Movie Based on The Odyssey

26 April 2009 8:39 PM, PDT | thetorchonline | See recent thetorchonline news »

Hollywood's obsession with violent, fantasy-tinged stories set in the world of ancient history continues as Warner Brothers is the victor in a major bidding war for Odysseus, a screenplay loosely based on the classic poem The Odyssey by Homer. The would-be movie joins a remake of the 1981 film Clash of the Titans and another film, War of the Gods, about a Greek warrior battling imprisoned titans, both set for 2010 release. Last week, TheTorchOnline.com reported on the graphic sex and violence that will be part of the new Lucy Lawless series Spartacus, about the rebel Roman slave, to debut on Starz in January 2010. All these projects were set in motion, at least in part, by the unexpected break-out success of 2006's 300, Zack Synder's ultra-graphic adaptation of the graphic novel by Frank Miller. »

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Warner Bros. Makes an Odyssey with Ulysses -- Except without the 'odyssey' part.

24 April 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Written by Matt Goldberg Can someone please inform the major studios that they don't have to blow money on these adaptations of public domain works? That's the beauty of public domain. The estate of Homer isn't going to sue you if you make "The Iliad" or "The Odyssey". But I guess there is a problem when someone else creates an original work based off that public domain. The Homer Estate still can't sue but Ann Peacock gets to make a tidy profit off her script "Odysseus" which Warner Bros. will retitle "Ulysses" so they can sucker in some James Joyce fans. What's the plot? According to Variety, "Story centers on the Greek lit hero and king of Ithaca, who returns to his island after 20 years of fighting the Trojan Wars only to find his kingdom under the brutal occupation of an invading force, which he ultimately ... »

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